"Bait for the end of war": As Putin's friend is picking up to Mask and Trump - Bloomberg

To this end, he published a series of posts that told about the benefits of cooperation with the Kremlin for the President of the United States of America Donald Trump and billionaire Ilona Mask. Bloomberg was told about the activity of Dmitriev. The publication drew attention to the appearance of Dmitriev, the former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Investment Banner, on the social network X, in which he has not written a single word for the last 12 years.

The first two posts appeared on February 24, 2025, on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russian published two more messages. The first is the imaginary show of drones, which shows the flight to Mars of SpaceX SpaceX rocket Ilona Mask, and pilots - from the USA, the Russian Federation and Saudi Arabia. The following is Donald Trump's repost from True Social Social network.

Dmitriev also wrote that he hopes for the economic cooperation of Russians and Americans to stabilize the world economy. Such activities of the Kremlin representative in Bloomberg were called Gambitis, the purpose of which is to offer favorable business transactions mask and Trump, the article is said. Journalists spoke about Dmitriev with several sources. One of the anonymous interlocutors explained that they turned to the banker after Trump's interest in rare earth metals.

Dmitriev was allowed to "shine" and develop business relations. Another source is Russian political studies Kateryna Shulman: she stated that the Kremlin wanted to play pragmatism in the US President. "Russia is looking for ways to use what it considers Trump's" pragmatism ", and whether a commercial approach with businessmen in his team will work," the journalists of the Schulman Word.

Another interlocutor, Maria Snegova from the Center for Strategic and International Research, said the Kremlin's actions are similar to the standard KGB strategy during recruitment. It is understood that the special services "reflect" the interests and behavior of the persons to attract them to their side.

The article also lists Dmitriev's previous activities: he promoted the Russian Covid-19 Sputnik vaccine, supported Saudi Arabia during a scandal with the murder of Jamal Hashoggi's enlightenment, and even received the Order of the Prince. Bloomberg summed up that Dmitriev's task is to force the US president and mask to connect to "big business transactions" and use it as a "bait for termination of war in Ukraine on a favorable conditions for the Kremlin.

" It should be noted that the first mention of Kirill Dmitriev in the context of negotiations appeared in February 2025. A man named "Cyril" was mentioned by a representative of the White House on the Middle East, Steve Witcoff when he arrived in Moscow to pick up a convicted person for an American drug. The next appearance of the Russian took place on February 18 in Riyadh: he was a member of the Russian delegation at the first meeting with US representatives after the invasion.